Advances in Nonlinear Optics: From Fundamentals to Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1092
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear optics; nanophotonics; non-hermitian optics; optical microcavity; nonlinear optical imaging; super-resolution microscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This issue focuses on the very recent advances in nonlinear optics and its applications, which has been growing exponentially on various integrated platforms. Due to lower dimensions and strong light confinement, nonlinearity can be investigated using low laser powers and on micro-/nano-scales for a range of phenomena, including harmonic generation, frequency conversion, supercontinuum, and quantum bit manipulation, and over a wide optical range on fundamental research levels. The applications include optical clock, LiDAR, spectroscopy, imaging, detection, communication, etc. This Special Issue is aimed at including fascinating developments in all aspects of nonlinear optics and its applications including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Nonlinear optics, like and -based nonlinearity;
- Integrated photonics on different material platforms;
- Novel photonics devices and applications;
- Ultrafast all-optical processing;
- Nonlinear waveguides and optical fiber;
- Nonlinear effects in nanostructures: plasmonics and metamaterials;
- Frequency combs;
- Nonlinear effects in microresonators;
- Terahertz/microwave photonics;
- Nonlinear imaging;
- Optical supercontinuum;
- Soliton and nonlinear localization effects;
- Nonlinear propagation and filamentation;
- Ultrafast dynamics and instabilities;
- Nonlinear quantum effects;
- Nonlinear optics for quantum information;
- Nonlinear topological, non-Hermitian systems;
- Attosecond and extreme nonlinear optics.
Dr. Wenjie Wan
Prof. Dr. Yuanlin Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nonlinear photonics
- integrated photonics
- photonic devices and applications
- integrated quantum optics
- synthetic dimensions
- non-hermitian optics
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Planned Papers
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Title: Recent Advances in Non-Linear Imaging Techniques for Cancer Detection
Authors: Francisco J. Ávila
Affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Spain.
Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) cancer agency predicts that more than 35 mil-lion cases of will be experienced in 2050, a 77 % increase over the 2022 estimate. Cur-rently, the leading cancer diagnosed cancer are breast, lung and colorectal. There is no standardized tool for cancer diagnosis; initially clinical procedures are guided by the patient´s symptoms and generally involve biochemical blood tests, imaging and biopsy. Label-free nonlinear optical approaches are promising tool for tumor imaging, due to their inherent non-invasive biosafe contrast mechanisms and the ability to monitor collagen-related disorders and metabolic changes during cancer progression. Last ad-vances in nonlinear modalities for tumor imaging are reviewed here. In addition, an application of a blind deconvolution procedure to improve the quality of two-photon images of breast tumor tissues is shown.
